After careful study, the diplomatic experts of the Foreign Affairs Department have extracted several main points. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For Japan, they needed this treaty, naturally to resist Russia, because after the treaty was signed, the British government quickly vouched for Japan, issuing a special bond of 100 million pounds in London, all of which was used to pay British shipyards for the construction of warships.

Thanks to the British government's guarantee, the bonds were issued at a low interest rate of 3%, which allowed Japan to receive funds for the 12th Fleet project that had been prepared earlier.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan launched the Double Twelve Fleet Plan, which would build 12 new battleships and 12 new armored cruisers.

In order to pass the first batch of appropriations, the Japanese military department even did not hesitate to embezzle funds, and when the Japanese Navy veteran Yamamoto Gonbei discussed a plan with his helper, Saigo Tsumichi, Saigo had a firm attitude: "Mr. Yamamoto, you must buy a warship no matter what. It is necessary to embezzle the budget, which is of course unconstitutional. If the parliament holds people accountable for unconstitutionality, let's do it in Nijubashi. If two people die, they can buy a warship, and they can finally fulfill their long-cherished wish. ”

The two of them did not hesitate to build these warships with the determination of seppuku, first, because of their great determination to expand the navy, and second, because Japan's funds were too tight.

Now with the strong support of Britain, there is no longer financial pressure on the construction of the Double 12th Fleet, of which the cost of the capital ship Mikasa battleship is only 1.2 million pounds, and the twelve ships are only 14 million pounds, plus armored cruisers and ammunition reserves, 30 million pounds is more than enough, in fact, more money is still taken to the country for construction, Japan's domestic shipbuilding industry, can already produce warships under 5,000 tons.

The price Japan paid for the billion-pound was to fully cooperate with Britain's foreign policy in East Asia.

From the content of the Anglo-Japanese naval agreement, the Ming Foreign Affairs Department saw that in the event of a war between China and Britain, the British fleet would be used to engage the Chinese navy, and Japan would provide escort and other services for their merchant ships at this time. This was tantamount to allowing Japan to help Britain in the war between Britain and China, and for the Japanese fleet to become the escort fleet of Britain during the war.

If the Ming Dynasty went to war with Japan because of this, it would be tantamount to equating this treaty with a military alliance.

However, once Japan went to war with Russia in Korea, or if war broke out with China again, Britain did not have to bear the same obligations, and Japan went to war with China, which was not covered in the treaty, and Japan went to war in Korea, and Britain only had financial obligations.

It can be said that Britain only spent 100 million pounds on a loan to buy Japan, a cheap thug, and in the end the Japanese still have to pay back this money.

The Russians may interpret this as an agreement between Britain and Japan against Russia, but the Ming Dynasty interprets it as a British policy against China, and that the reunification of China is beyond the scope of Britain's tolerance, and they have begun to restrict China as if they were encircling Russia.

The Department of Foreign Affairs discussed for a long time, they didn't know what to do, they didn't have this experience: how to deal with it after becoming the object of restrictions and suppression by a world empire?

At this time, the foreign affairs department had given little consideration to Hurd's opinion, especially on such British-related issues, which they reported directly to the emperor.

Zhu Jinglun suggested that China should also seize the opportunity to form an alliance to counter British suppression.

There is no chance of forming an alliance with Western countries at present, especially after the signing of the East Asian Continental Agreement with France and Russia, it is not good to rashly form an alliance with other countries, unless it is an alliance with France and Russia, but this is not in China's interests, unless Russia spits out the annexed Chinese territory, otherwise the two countries cannot become an alliance.

But in response, China must do something, otherwise it will cause further loss of control, or the British will press forward step by step, and after seeing that China is indifferent to their encirclement, the British will form more alliances against China; Either the countries with close ties to China will only become more and more alienated from China when they see that China does not even dare to protect their own interests.

In the absence of an alliance with Western countries, the only option is the East Asian countries.

The situation in North Korea is too complicated and it is impossible for North Koreans to follow China's policies wholeheartedly, so the first choice can only be the Ryukyus, Vietnam, and Siam, three countries that already have relatively close economic and military ties with China.

Japan's military expansion has kept the Ryukyu Kingdom very nervous, and they have become more and more dependent on China to protect and maintain their independence; France's military presence in Vietnam has always been tense with Vietnam, which has terrified Vietnam, and Vietnam must also rely on China; Siam's four states on the Malay Peninsula, because the inhabitants are mostly Malays of Islam, Britain has long made territorial claims, Siam is also feeling strong pressure, France has pledged not to expand in the Mekong River Basin, although the pressure on the Siamese side is relieved, but the pressure on the other side is still huge.

Therefore, Daming's proposal to deepen relations between several countries immediately received a positive response from several countries.

The Ryukyus allowed the Ming Dynasty to build a military base in the Ryukyus, which was basically unconditional support, and you could build it wherever you wanted, and China chose to build a military base on Amami Oshima, the closest to Japan, and the attitude towards Japan should not be too obvious. If Japan followed the British in their war against the Ming Dynasty, the military base here would be able to reach Tokyo Bay within a day.

Vietnam's attitude is basically similar to that of the Ryukyus, not only because they were able to restore the country with the support of the Ming Dynasty, but also because they are still facing pressure from France, there is also an important factor, Vietnam and China are in-laws, Vietnam not only married a princess to the crown prince of China, Zhu Jinglun also married his daughter to the king of Vietnam.

After the restoration of Vietnam, Vietnam immediately followed the previous agreement with Daming, and the court immediately looked for a princess of the clan to marry Zhu Jinglun's son Zhu Ninghua. They chose to be the eldest princess of Yude Emperor Nguyen Phuc Yingzhen, Princess My Liang. The choice of Nguyen Phuc Anh Zhen's daughter was the subject of heated discussions in the Vietnamese court. After the death of the childless Emperor Duc, in just a few years, Vietnam has experienced four emperors, including Emperor Yude, Emperor Xiehe, Emperor Xianyi, and even Emperor Jianfu, who was erected and abolished by the French.

However, only Emperor Nguyen Phuc Sheng, Emperor Yude Nguyen Phuc Ying Zhen had daughters of the same age, and Emperor Xianyi himself was only fourteen years old, and it was impossible for a woman who could marry the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. A fierce controversy broke out between the heirs of Emperor Concord and Emperor Yude, because many ministers did not recognize Emperor Concord who had been propped up by Nguyen Van Xiang and Emperor Zun Duc, and soon Zun Clan said that he lost the political struggle, and he was held accountable for poisoning Emperor Yu Duc and sentenced to beheading.

In the end, the victor of the political struggle, Pan Tingfeng and other ministers of the squire faction who started the uprising, decided to marry Princess Meiliang left by Emperor Yude to the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time only recognized Emperor Yude, who ascended the throne according to the edict of Emperor Yude, as the legitimate emperor, and the Emperor Xiehe, who killed Emperor Yude, was not recognized.

Princess My Ray married the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, so that Vietnam is full of a feeling of climbing up to good relatives, and even formed a festival, the common people spontaneously hung a variety of blessings in front of the door on this day, called the Sending Relatives Festival.

As a result, Zhu Ninghua married Princess My Ray of Vietnam the following year, Ming and Vietnam married again, Zhu Jinglun married his fifteen-year-old daughter Zhu Ningxia to the Vietnamese king Nguyen Phuc Minh, at this time Nguyen Phuc Minh was only sixteen years old, he was not yet fourteen years old when he succeeded to the throne, and began to wander after ascending the throne, and he did not have time to accept a concubine.

Winning a Chinese princess caused fierce pro-Chinese sentiment in Vietnam, marrying a daughter to Daming already feels like climbing a rich relative, and now marrying a princess from Daming is simply a major event that has never been seen in their recorded history of more than 2,000 years. When will a Chinese princess marry the Vietnamese royal family?

Of course, there is no in the official history, it does not mean that there is no wild history, in the wild history, Southeast Asia is full of stories of Chinese princesses and local princes, and even as far as Persia there are such stories, the famous opera Turandot is derived from the one thousand and one day of the Arabo folk tale, which tells the story of the princess of the Yuan Dynasty marrying a Tatar prince in exile in the north. The story, in turn, is derived from the story of the Persians.

Vietnam also has related historical legends, but it is obviously impossible, either the princess of the fallen country, or all kinds of unbelievable elopement stories, but now history has come true, they really married a Chinese princess, or a princess of the rising Central Plains Empire, how not to excite the Vietnamese.

For this reason, after marrying the princess of Daming, Ruan Fuming did not dare to accept a concubine, and directly made Princess Daming the queen. Ten years have passed, Zhu Ningxia not only established herself in the Vietnamese palace, but also drove all the messy women out of the palace.

In the court, relying on the empress, a powerful bureaucracy was formed, and these bureaucrats promoted learning from the Ming Dynasty and reforming Vietnamese politics, which was very similar to the Kaihua Party in North Korea, but the difference was that the pro-China clique in Vietnam did not get resistance from the conservatives, because this pro-China clique rose step by step in the process of Vietnam's restoration, and it was a bureaucratic group with Phan Dinh Phong and other powerful ministers as the core, and they were not an interest group, but an ideological group. They study the Ming Dynasty without ideological baggage, purely for the sake of strengthening the country.

So it can be said that Vietnam is now a country run by a pro-Chinese bureaucracy.

After the Chinese government made a proposal to them, they also basically and unconditionally met China's request to allow China to build military bases anywhere in Vietnam.

Siam signed a ten-year military alliance with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty's military strength protected them for ten years, and this treaty ended in 1897, and Siam has always wanted to renew the treaty. So China offered a military base as a condition, and Siam had to agree.

But Siam clearly had a plan, and they decided to lease Kota Bharu in Kelantan to China as a military base, and Kelantan has always been a Malay state that the British are trying to cede from Siam, and Siam is obviously hoping to keep the whole of Kelantan by leasing a port to China, and at the same time throw British pressure on China.

The Chinese government considered the issue, but agreed and immediately extended the military alliance with Siam for a decade.

While building a complete military base in the South China Sea, the Chinese government also helped the three countries develop their military forces, and China sent 3,000 troops to the Ryukyus itself, which did not have the ability to form a regular army; However, Vietnam has been struggling to maintain a huge army force of 300,000 men, and the Ming Dynasty helped them build a navy, lending Vietnam to build a naval fleet dominated by two battleships; Siam, for its part, immediately decided to build a navy of the same size, and apparently Vietnam was one of Siam's foreign threats, and China also helped Siam build a fleet.

But the Vietnamese were not happy, with an army of 300,000 people, and then to form a powerful navy, Vietnam is a hegemon in Southeast Asia, for which they began to closely carry out diplomatic activities in the Ming Dynasty, their queen Zhu Ningxia personally went out, after more than two months of lobbying in the Ming Dynasty, from the Ming government to get an annual military aid of one million taels.

After completing the military agreements with the three countries, China began to negotiate commercial agreements with several countries in full swing.

The Chinese government proposed the establishment of a regional economic alliance, in which the vast majority of customs duties would be exempted, the customs and financial systems would be unified, and the currencies issued by various countries should be pegged to the Ming currency to facilitate commercial exchanges.

Ryukyu and Vietnam still agreed without any consideration, Ryukyu has no market, there is no industry, the development of the past few years is completely dependent on entrepot trade for a living, eighty percent of the country's population serves the port trade, the trade between China and Japan is mostly re-exported from here, and China's trade to the Americas is also partly re-exported from here. Therefore, tariffs do not mean anything to them, and they can still get along with China, so why not.

Vietnam is now China's largest supplier of rice, coal and steel, while the Ming Dynasty exports large quantities of cotton, silk, tea and other industrial products to Vietnam.

Vietnam's pro-Chinese faction learned that China was also developing its own industry, but there was still no market, and the exemption of tariffs between the two countries was a huge benefit to the Vietnamese government's promotion of sugar, paper and other industries, and their queen and ministers were extremely supportive.

As for the financial linkage to the Ming currency, after heated discussions in the Vietnamese court, it reluctantly agreed. Their officials did not know much about finance, and even a large number of new-school technocrats who had studied in the official schools of the Ming Dynasty generally lacked financial knowledge. They feared that the Vietnamese currency would be controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

But Vietnam's finances are in shambles, with a total population of only 8 million, but they support an army of 300,000 and domestic taxes are quite heavy. He learned how to print paper money in China, but he lacked hard currency, and in the trade with China and France, precious metals were flowing out all the year round.

Under the impetus of Zhu Ninghua, he persuaded one official and the king after another, but at the same time, Zhu Ninghua received a financial aid from China, and obtained a credit line of 10 million taels from the Central Bank of China, which had been renamed the Imperial Bank of China, to ensure the stability of Vietnam's financial reform.

Siam also reluctantly agreed, and began to peg its national currency to China's. But they did not want to borrow foreign debt, and they intended to rely on their own reserves, in fact, to switch Siam to the gold standard.

As the Ming Dynasty established closer military and economic ties with Southeast Asian countries, a new East Asian order led by China was born.

This new order was born precisely stimulated by the agreement between Britain and Japan, and it can be said that it is still the product of the great power game, so this new order cannot exist without the great power game, but will intensify the intensity of the great power game. Let Westerners think that the contradictions between China and Britain have further intensified, and the danger of war between the two countries is even greater.

But the war did not break out first in East Asia, whether it was Korea, which had been reduced to a powder keg without realizing it, or Southeast Asia, where economic conflict intensified, but in the British colonies.

In August 1899, the Boer War began, a war in which British world hegemony officially declined!